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Russian President Vladmir Putin has condemned the current process adopted by the United Nations and member countries in their attempt to resolve the ongoing Korean Peninsula crisis saying that it will only lead to a dead end.

Putin has recommended that dialogue without preconditions is the only way forward.

"Russia believes that the policy of putting pressure on Pyongyang to stop its nuclear missile programme is misguided and futile," he wrote in the article sent to media in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the BRICS member states.

"The region's problems should only be settled through a direct dialogue of all the parties concerned without any preconditions. Provocations, pressure and militarist and insulting rhetoric are a dead-end road."

President Putin also stated that Russia and China have created a plan that should ensure a lasting peace between North Korea and South Korea going forward.

Meanwhile, a senior South Korean official also urged Pyongyang on Friday to return to the negotiating table, while warning against "continuing provocations".

"Our government's stance that we need to peacefully resolve North Korean nuclear issues and Korean Peninsula issues remains unchanged," Lee Eugene, South Korean Unification Ministry deputy spokesperson, said. 

"We urge North Korea to stop making rhetorical criticisms and threats and to come out to the path of dialogue and cooperation."